First Amendment for Blasphemy

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Why Britain needs a First Amendment

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Thomas Aitkenhead , aged just 20, was the last person to be executed for the crime in Britain , back in 1697 .

The last person jailed for blasphemy in Britain was the ironically named John William Gott , who got nine months hard labour in 1921 for a pamphlet comparing Jesus to a circus clown.

Today , Britain in effect has two sets of blasphemy laws - there is a de facto law protecting Islam .

And there are the more official hate speech laws protecting people’s identities.

The great injustice of blasphemy codes is that they often appear so arbitrary, because feelings of offence are random and irrational.

The authorities wish to crush the people offending society’s moral values.

Britain is in a particularly unfortunate position because we tend to import wholesale American ideas, without the free speech protections that are part of their tradition.

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